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As many as 80% of Deal's population are Sephardi Jews, and the year-round population jumps ten-fold to over 6,000 during the summer, many of them Syrian Jews. [20] [21] In the 2000 census, 16.4% of Deal residents identified as being of Syrian heritage, the greatest percentage of Syrian Americans in any municipality in the country. [22]
Website. http://dealshul.org/. The Synagogue of Deal is a Sephardi Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Norwood Avenue in Deal, New Jersey, in the United States. Established in 1973 by the local Syrian Jewish community, it was the first synagogue built in Deal.
The Syrian Jewish communities of the United States are a collection of communities of Syrian Jews, mostly founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The largest are in Brooklyn, Deal, New Jersey and Miami. In 2007, the population of the New York and New Jersey communities was estimated at 90,000. [1]
Born to a Sephardic Syrian Jewish family and a resident of Deal Park, a neighborhood in Ocean Township, New Jersey, Dwek ran a real estate empire in and around Monmouth County under multiple business names, and was nominally vice-president of the Deal Yeshiva, a non-profit Orthodox Jewish religious school which his parents founded.
The history of Jews in New Jersey started with the arrival of Dutch and English traders and settlers in the late 1600s. [1] [2] According to the Berman Jewish DataBank's 2019 survey, New Jersey is the state with the fourth highest total population of Jews at 545,450 and is also the state with the third highest percent of Jews at 6.1%.
On October 24, the Attorney General of New Jersey, Christopher Porrino, sued Mahwah and its council, alleging that by voting for the parks ban and for the summonses, they had violated the constitutional rights of Orthodox Jews.
As of 2015, the group has more than 60 Jewish volunteers, as well as non-Jewish personnel who work on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. The organization patrols the streets of Lakewood Township, New Jersey in marked cars. It fields an average of 400 calls a month.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014. [1]
The newspaper was founded in 1946 as The Jewish News. [2] [4] Merging in 1947 with the Jewish Times of Newark, it kept the Jewish News name. [2] [5] In 1988, it was renamed the MetroWest Jewish News. [2] [6] [7] In 1997, under the direction of Associate Publisher Amir Cohen, Editor David Twersky and Managing Editor Debra Rubin, it acquired The ...
New Jersey authorities have described the attack as domestic terrorism motivated by antisemitism. In 2023, a state lawsuit against Jackson Township was settled alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews. The township was ordered to pay $575,000 for allegedly using local ordinances to keep out Orthodox Jewish residents. See also